Ferrant Naffis

Ferrant Naffis (1663-) was general of the Kingdom of France. He commanded the Army of the Rhine during the War of the Spanish Succession.

Biography
Ferrant Naffis was born in 1663 was born in Auxerre in the Yonne Department of Burgundy in the Kingdom of France. Naffis enlisted iin a regiment of line infantry during the War of the Grand Alliance and was posted on the Rhineland front against the Imperial Habsburg armies of the Austrian Empire and Wurttemberg. Naffis became a general of the French Army in 1702, made the new commander of the Army of the Rhine. Naffis commanded the French army against Wurttemberg and occupied the capital of Stuttgart in 1703, and his army was bolstered by reinforcements from the French capital of Paris.